Hamden Hall Country Day School - Perennial Pine Yearbook (New Haven, CT)

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THE country day school aims to afford almost all of the advantages of the boarding school and at the same time has the added virtue that the pupils live at home, the family life is not disrupted, and the teachers and parents may work in closest harmony to secure the most desirable results in the development of every child. Effort is made to motivate the activities of the lower school through the interest and creative instincts of the children. By such a procedure a maximum of self-control and initiative is developed, and there is a marked absence of strain. The result is that the pupils demon- strate a spirit of happiness and of good will towards each other, the faculty, and the school as a whole. THE members of the faculty have been selected because of their particular qualifications to put into practice the fundamental philosophy of the school, their sympathetic under- standing of the problems faced by growing boys and girls, their training, and personality. They are alert to recognize and to guide any creative tendency on the part of the indi- vidual pupil, to help him to find himself, and to deal with his limitations as well as his success in a constructive way. HAMDEN HALL is a member of the Educational Records Bureau and ranks high with other private schools in the achievement of its pupils. The results of the Metropolitan Achievement and Cooperative Tests have been very gratifying in all departments. The scholastic standards of the upper middle school are those of the Secondary Education Board, of which the school is a member, and the standards of the upper school are those of the College Entrance Examination Board. Incidentally, the work done by the Eighth Grade at Hamden Hall has been recognized by colleges and other preparatory schools as meeting the requirements and standards of the first year of college preparatory work, and the work of the Preparatory Department of Hamden Hall is designed to fit the students for the colleges of their choice. It is approved by the Connecticut State Board of Education, the New England College Entrance Certificate Board, the United States Department of Education in Washington, D. C., and is accredited to colleges admitting by certificate. THE success of the program at Hamden Hall is evidenced by the fact that in recent years graduates of the school have not only been accepted by such colleges as Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology, Yale, Cornell, Oberlin, Swarthmore, Rensselaer, Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Barnard, and Mount Holyoke, but also have been able to maintain honor grades in these institutions. THIS spring six Seniors, in competition with a large number of boys from other schools in this district, successfully passed the V-5 Naval Aviation examinations. As cadets these boys are granted the privilege of continuing their studies in colleges at the expense of the United States Government. Page Eight

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with his fellows. With such an organization it is possible to give careful attention to character development and to the physical, social, and mental well-being of each student. Every effort is made to help all members of the school to find satisfaction in work well done and in a simple, friendly, Christian way of life. THE art work or creative work is closely integrated with the social science studies, and especial instruction is given in the techniques needed. The fundamental purpose behind the work of the music department is to bring out, develop, and guide the love of and feeling for music which is inherent in every child. Each group in the school has regularly scheduled periods each week for music in addition to the voluntary glee club and orchestra. The work in French begins in the early school years with songs and games and develops through simple reading and composition to formal instruction in the middle and upper schools. THE school recognizes that recreational, social, and aesthetic training is of equal importance with the more traditional subject matter, and should be made a definite part of the experience of all pupils. Opportunity is given to learn the fundamentals of the more organized sports and of many informal games. There is a well-developed schedule of intra-mural contests. Both boys and girls at various school levels have many opportunities to play against teams from other schools. Dramatics is an important school activity, and pupils at nearly all levels have opportunity to participate. In recent years Hamden Hall has produced with great success the Shakespearean plays, As You Like It and Romeo and Juliet , and the operettas, Mikado and Pinafore . THE students in the college preparatory department publish THE HAMDEN HALL PERENNIAL PINE, a year book which contains contributions from pupils in most of the departments of the school. A program of rhythms is offered from the nursery school through the fifth grade. For all classes above the fifth, opportunity is provided for social dancing under excellent leadership, these classes being voluntary. Clubs such as rifling, student editing, photography, cooking, stamp collecting, nature work, sewing, metal and woodworking, give outlets for many interests. Useful and popular adjuncts to the school are the Brownie organization for the girls of the lower school and the Cubs for the boys. A number of these activities are held in the Log Cabin on the school grounds. In order to be of service to the community in this World War, many students have enrolled and completed training under faculty supervision at Hamden Hall as First Aiders and Canteen Aiders of the Red Cross, and as messengers and airplane spotters in Civilian Defense. Every boy and girl has the opportunity of entering into these extra- curricular activities, thus gaining self-confidence and experience of value in later life. -I THE WAITING STATION Page Seven

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1943 Class Prophecy In June, 1963, the Class of 1945 had its fourth reunion. We have been fortunate to get the class together once every five years, besides, it gives the boys a chance to get out of the house. As I walked into the reunion room, the din was similar to the noise which used to issue forth from the Senior Room at that happy time, recess. From the far corner of the room the mellifluous strains of Fouser's First Symphony were evoked from a con- cert grand by the nimble fingers of the maestro himself. Our own William Core Duffy, and his lovely co-star, Elizabeth Duncan, now appearing in the Broadway hit, Is This Life??? , were standing at Fouser's side, turning pages. Lewis Rashmir, looking tanned and well-groomed, was arguing vociferously with Carolyn Bushell about the South American market-in fluent Spanish, of course. Lewis has made quite a name for himself in engineering, his main ofiices being in Caracas, Venezuela. Butch is now managing editor of a Buenos Aires newspaper. Over in another corner George Levine and Charles Berlepsch were disputing the superiority of the Clark Y airfoil to that of the Davis No. 5 for a new flying wing. Howard Nielson was listening intently to these two aeronautical experts, although his specialty is atoms. While working at the Walla Walla Institute he has devised a highly specialized machine for collecting atoms once they are split. Working near them at a small table is Betty Christensen. Someone told me with baited breath that she had just finished trisecting an angle, and was about to square a circle. At the table Bettie Barnes, now a famous dress designer and known in this field as Lily Dache-Hund , was conversing with Phyllis Bellin, whose Fifth Avenue Shoppe would like to obtain exclusive rights to Bettie's designs. Beside her I recognized Harriet Mack in her Navy Nurse's uniform talking to Lt. Commander Robert A. Neumann, U.S.N. I'll wager they were talking shop. From the other end of the couch I heard a familiar giggle and turned to find Hudas Schwartz chuckling to herself over one of my cartoons. I draw these for relaxation after a hard day's work at INTERNATIONAL AIRWAYS, INC., where I am first vice- president. Hudas seemed to be enjoying her time off from her job as assistant to Dr. Gallup in the Vital Statistics Department. Then my ears caught the sound of a Southern accent which could belong to no one except Elaine Cooke. She and Beatrice Brodner were discussing their positions as secretaries on the Stock Exchange. At this moment a colossal roar interrupted the conversations and shook the pillars of the Duffy Virginia mansion where we were assembled. I rushed outside just as the archaic form of Fred Colburn's Model A chugged up, smouldering, to the curb. Fred jumped out and assisted Dawn Lytle to the ground. The two produced various wrenches, screw drivers, an Edna Wallace Hopper Beauty Pack, and went to work-on the car, of course. Incidentally, Fred was offered several thousand dollars by the Smithsonian Institute for the antique, but Fred claimed it was priceless seeing that when he asked the ash-man how much the latter would pay for it, the ash-man replied, It's priceless! Fred carries Dawn around with him to assist in the numerous repairs necessary from time to time. After the Duffy's butler had served all that was in the ice-box and the last coke had been consumed, the classmates sardined themselves into Fred's ancient Ford and, after Fred had lit the gas headlights, we were off in a cloud of dust. DAVID MILLER Page N ine